My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

What does America love more than one white male?

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.